🚨🔔 No President is required to host a hostile operation on the grounds. Access has always been a privilege — and President Trump is applying that rule.
-For years, Democrat Administrations have restricted, punished, and locked out the press.
Last week, President Donald J. Trump removedCNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds after years of false reporting.The First Amendment protects their right to publish; it does not entitle them to a hard pass, briefing room seat, or place in the press pool.
Access changes are nothing new. What is new, however, is the sudden claim that it becomes sacred only when the outlets are friendly to the Radical Left. The rule was never “every outlet gets in.” It was always “our side stays in.”
-FLASHBACK: Biden also changed White House press pool, cutting off more than
440 reporters' credentials
-2011: After a San Francisco Chronicle reporter recorded protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser, White House officials threatenedto strip the outlet from access and warned of retaliation if the paper reported on it.
-2012: The Obama Justice Department secretly seizedtwo months of telephone records covering more than 20 Associated Press lines used by more than a dozen journalists — targeting them over their reporting.
-2023: The Biden White House blocked New York Post reporter Steven Nelson from covering the President’s only daytime public event — despite empty seats in the room — after the reporter pressed Biden on his family’s shady business dealings.
Obama talking about "unimaginable" press bans. This is the same guy who mastered White House media manipulation by banning independent photographers so he could handpick and stage his own pre-approved photos.
Fast-forward to his private estate, even the story of his own chef is locked down tighter than the vault at Fort Knox. But sure, lecture us on transparency! 📸🤐🍿